TikTok’s longstanding COO V Pappas just announced plans to leave their executive role at the company. \nBut also, if there isn’t enough pushback and soon — as progress in AI accelerates, the societal impacts also accelerate — we’ll continue heading down a “hype-filled road toward AI,” she said, “where that power is entrenched and naturalized under the guise of intelligence and we are surveilled to the point [of having] very, very little agency over our individual and collective lives. \nThe company is clearly trying to draw a semantic line here between its users and its creators, but that boundary is regularly blurred across modern social platforms, including TikTok